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As we move past Pride Month, our celebration of queer literature continues. For this installment of Pivotal Pages, we feature “Louise” from Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories. "Louise" follows May and her wife, Lai, two dissimilar yet fiercely devoted...
The long-awaited second installment of Pivotal Pages has finally arrived! In this post, we share an early excerpt from Adrianne Harun’s novel ON THE WAY TO THE END OF THE WORLD.
We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
Poetry Editor Lisa Ampleman Interviews Jenna Le, Author of MANATEE LAGOON
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
In Manatee Lagoon, her third full-length collection, physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment. Sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a “failed georgic” weave in contemporary…
Head over to The Cloudy House to take a look at the wonderful conversation they had with Acre poet Megan Grumbling about her new collection Persephone in the Late Anthropocene. She discusses Persephone as a “project book,” other authors and works that have used...
We’re just a little excited to announce that an Acre book has finally appeared in the Book Review section of The New York Times, and none are more deserving of this honor than Corinna Vallianatos’s brilliant novel The Beforeland.
Today is the day: receive a double dose of the finest, piping-hot Acre literary cuisine. Dig deep into the harrowing apocalyptic bricolage of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, Megan Grumbling’s second poetry collection featuring “Farmers Almanac entries,...
It seems like every other week we’re posting about a new recognition for Faylita Hicks’s revolutionary debut poetry collection HoodWitch. This time the book is a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize! Check out the list of other finalists (for the poetry as well as...